Jan A.L. van Kan

The paper presents an improved genome assembly for Botrytis cinerea strain B05.10 with added telomeres and error corrections.

The paper investigates whether cheater nuclei in filamentous fungi can increase in frequency by exploiting public goods, and how this affects virulence and antifungal resistance.

The paper investigates the nuclear composition of fungal spores in Botrytis cinerea and Neurospora crassa, finding evidence that multiple nuclei are mitotic copies rather than sharing a single haploid set of chromosomes.

The paper shows that higher anthocyanin levels in flowers correlate with increased resistance to Botrytis cinerea, and that this defense is conserved in Asteraceae but lost in cultivated species.

This study investigates the role of two GAME genes in tomatine biosynthesis and fungal defense in tomato, finding that SlGAME4 affects glycoalkaloid synthesis and susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea.

The paper shows that Botrytis cinerea mutants lacking phytotoxins regain virulence when inoculated with yeast extract, highlighting the importance of phytotoxins and inoculation conditions in virulence.

This study identifies pathogen-induced flavonoid and anthocyanin biosynthesis in Chrysanthemum seticuspe petals as a defense mechanism against Botrytis cinerea, showing their direct antifungal activity.